It is one of the rarest and most magical sights in the natural world. A bottlenose dolphin goes into
labour ... then a calf emerges, tail first. Mother guides baby gently to the surface, where they swim together for the
first time. Very few dolphin births have been captured on film in such astonishing detail. See
picture above Click
here
to see
more pictures and to read
more.

In
Cortez,
Florida,

Bill
Miller
Creates
Fish Art
for Fun.

Bill Miller takes galvanized sheet metal and, with tools that he makes himself, bends, cuts and shapes
the metal into a lifelike, three-dimensional fish species. For the scales, he'll paint through a screen or net. Finally,
he'll paint the fish with intriguingly accurate colors until the fish shines as though it just broke through the water.
Miller is retired. This is his hobby. "I make what I want to make when I want to make it," Miller said. "I don't want
another job. I want to enjoy life." See picture above on this page. Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to
Joshua From Okemos, Michigan, for sending us the link to this story.

Floating
Home
with an
Underwater
Living
Room.

The Jelly-fish 45, designed by Giancarlo
Zema is a floating dwelling unit for up to six persons. It's spacious dimensions are 10 metres high with a diameter of
over 15 metres. The Jelly-fish 45 would be ideally situated in sea parks,
atolls, bays and seas rich in flora and fauna. The Jelly-fish 45 allows the
sea dwelling owners to live either above or below sea level in perfect harmony with the ocean environment. See
the picture above. Click here
to read
more.

In North
Carolina,

Scientists
Develop
Light-Producing
Proteins.

BioLume announced it has been assigned or exclusively licensed the rights to more than forty (40) U.S.
and foreign patents covering natural bioluminescent proteins and related substrates from Prolume, Ltd. These patents
include both compositions of matter and methods of use claims. BioLume's exclusive field of use covers diagnostic
imaging, and all food, beverage, cosmetic applications. BioLume's mission is to develop and commercialize this portfolio
of proprietary bioluminescent (light producing) proteins, and related technology. Click
here
to read
more.

From the
Hebrew
University
in
Jerusalem,

Red
Sea Fish
Colonizes
the
Mediterranean.

Of the many exotic fish living in the Red Sea, one of the most unique and well-known is
the cornetfish (Fistularia commersoni). This meter-long silvery fish resembles a long, thin flute, with a rigid,
pipe-like mouth. Until recently, anyone who wanted to see cornetfish had to go south, to the Red Sea. In the past
decade, however, this fish has begun to appear in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is multiplying rapidly. Click
here
to read
more.

In
Traverse
City,
Michigan,

Scientists
Can't
Explain
Algae
Outbreak.

When runaway algae killed fish and fouled beaches in the Great Lakes region decades ago, governments
ordered cutbacks of phosphorus — a key algae nutrient — from laundry detergents and sewage treatment plants. It worked,
for a while, but scientists acknowledge there are no simple solutions for a recent algae outbreak that is littering
shorelines with stinky muck, and it may be responsible for die-offs of loons and other water birds. "We've done all the
easy stuff," Harvey Bootsma, a University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee scientist, said during a conference this week on
Lake Michigan environmental problems. Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to
Joshua From Okemos, Michigan, for sending us the link to this story.

In the
Upper
Mississippi
River,

Flying
Fish no
Longer
Funny.

The scene looks like many Mississippi river towns: an arched river bridge with a paddleboat in the
distance. The bridge is green, not blue, but otherwise it could be the new local span across the Mississippi River from
La Crescent, Minn., to La Crosse, Wis. But what dominates this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photograph from the
Illinois River is a frantic field of glittering fish, boiling out of the water. Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to
Joshua From Okemos, Michigan, for sending us the link to this story.

In
Kazakhstan,

Fish
in Space
Help
Studies
of
Balance
Disorders.

Twenty-six baby fish are now orbiting Earth aboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft, in a long-delayed
experiment that researchers hope will lead to a better understanding of inner-ear balance mechanisms in humans. The
cichlid fish (Oreochromis mossambicus) blasted off Friday morning (11:00 GMT) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,
in a Foton-M3 craft atop a Soyuz-U rocket, as part of a package of life and physical science experiments organized by
the European Space Agency. Click
here
to read
more.

In
Monaco

Non-Profits
Auction
Species
Names
for
Conservation.

Over the years, philanthropists have lent their names to art galleries, schools and hospitals. But in a
watershed auction, the world's rich will be able to add their names to several new species of fish — all in the name of
charity. On Thursday 20 September, an auction to name ten new species of fish is being held by the Monaco-based
Monaco-Asia Society, a non-profit organization devoted to Asian causes and Conservation International, based in
Arlington, Virginia. The fish are a few of the dozens discovered by Conservation International during expeditions to
reefs off the coast of Indonesia's Papua Province in 2006. Bidders will arrive from around the world for a gala at
Monaco's Oceanographic Museum, which sits on a bluff high above the Mediterranean Ocean. Prince Albert II will be in
attendance, and auction house Christie's will oversee the bidding pro-bono. Click
here
to read
more.

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